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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'...more

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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virt...more

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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not ...more

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and t...more

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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.